ALL meanings of dropout
drop·out
D d - noun dropout an act or instance of dropping out. 1
- noun dropout a student who withdraws before completing a course of instruction. 1
- noun dropout a student who withdraws from high school after having reached the legal age to do so. 1
- noun dropout a person who withdraws from established society, especially to pursue an alternate lifestyle. 1
- noun dropout a person who withdraws from a competition, job, task, etc.: the first dropout from the presidential race. 1
- noun dropout Rugby. a drop kick made by a defending team from within its own 25-yard (23-meter) line as a result of a touchdown or of the ball's having touched or gone outside of a touch-in-goal line or the dead-ball line. 1
- noun dropout Also called highlight halftone. a halftone negative or plate in which dots have been eliminated from highlights by continued etching, burning in, opaquing, or the like. 1
- noun dropout Also called dropout error. the loss of portions of the information on a recorded magnetic tape due to contamination of the magnetic medium or poor contact with the tape heads. 1
- noun dropout A person who has abandoned a course of study or who has rejected conventional society to pursue an alternative lifestyle. 1
- noun dropout sb: leaves school 1
- noun dropout sb: rejects convention 1
- noun dropout sb: leaves competition 1
- countable noun dropout If you describe someone as a dropout, you disapprove of the fact that they have rejected the accepted ways of society, for example, by not having a regular job. 0
- countable noun dropout A dropout is someone who has left school or college before they have finished their studies. 0
- adjective dropout If you refer to the dropout rate, you are referring to the number of people who leave a school or college early, or leave a course or other activity before they have finished it. 0
- noun dropout a student who fails to complete a school or college course 0
- noun dropout a person who rejects conventional society 0
- noun dropout a drop kick taken by the defending team to restart play, as after a touchdown 0
- noun dropout a momentary loss of signal in a magnetic recording medium as a result of an imperfection in its magnetic coating 0
- verb dropout to abandon or withdraw from (a school, social group, job, etc) 0
- noun dropout one who drops out; specif., a person who withdraws from school, esp. high school, before graduating 0
- noun dropout Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course. 0
- noun dropout One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. 0
- noun dropout (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. 0
- noun dropout A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. 0